He's invoking the Charter of WHAT?

By refusing to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Canada's 'New Government' (tm) proves that they are in fact, the same gang of small-minded racist reactionaries of the Reform Party and the Canadian Alliance. The only new element in the Conservative's flipping the bird to the aspirations of Canada's First Nations (and Aboriginal Peoples throughout the world) is that they are wrapping themselves in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to do it. Hey, this page is as shocked as you are, but unfortunately, Chuck Strahl has figured out how to use the Charter as a cynical political tool to advance the Tories toward a majority government.

Voting against a non-binding resolution because of Charter considerations and that it 'lacks clear guidance for implementation' is either psychotic or sinister reasoning, unless one is trying to sway voters in the suburbs and exburbs of Quebec and Ontario's 905 region that Stephen Harper won't stand another Oka or Caledonia. The Prime Minister claims Canada shouldn't 'vote for things on the basis of political correctness; we should actually vote on the basis of what's in the document'. Nothing in the resolution overrides the authority of the Canadian government, and nothing in the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Child, which was rejected by Alberta's caveman regime voided the rights of parents to discipline their children.

In both cases, all Conservatives had to do was vote for the damn non-binding thing and let someone feel better about themselves. If they can't even do that, why should anyone trust them with making any decisions that involve actual governing?